A Hudson News outlet in an unknown airport was recommending these books to people who were soon to undergo the torture of air travel.

My old friend Dan Splain, behind whom I sat for six years in alphabetically fixated Catholic school in the southern suburbs of Pittsburgh, took the photo while bound for Tahiti, a place I think I have heard of.

It’s a hopeful sign that the book is being noticed. I hope it was in the LA airport, where two of the top candidates for the movie roles — Jeff Bridges and Samuel L. Jackson — might see it.